Self-Publishing, Children’s Books and Me — The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of All Three. Questions about self-publishing children\’s books are welcome and will be added to FAQ if appropriate.
And now, to conclude my online interview of Adirondack Kids series author, Gary VanRiper, I asked …
Me: Do you have a particular technique in terms of marketing and promotion that has worked really well for you?
Gary: Wow. So much could be said on the subject of marketing and promotion. It should be understood by every [...]
So here is more of my question/answer email interview with Gary VanRiper, author/publisher of the Adirondack Kids series
Me: Your arrangement of having a publisher as your distributor is interesting. It sounds as though it was someone who worked at the publishing firm who suggested that? or did you approach them? I’m just [...]
So here is part one of my email/blog interview with children’s book self-publisher Gary VanRiper.
Question: Did you try to have the first Adirondack Kids book published by a traditional publisher?
Gary’s reply: We did approach a regional publisher who expressed interest in our story, but who explained the company was already some two years out on [...]
Over the next week or so, I am going to be posting questions and answers here from an email interview with Gary VanRiper, the dad half of the father/son co-authors of the Adirondack Kids book series. I already sent Gary a few questions, but now as I went to put a link to their [...]
Here are some frequently mentionned advantages of self-publishing:
Control over the book’s promotion and availability: If book sales are slow initially, you can continue to market and promote the book, whereas a traditional publisher will usually remainder the book AND may now deem you as an author with a poor sales record.
Greater potential profit: While [...]
Today I threw out my 2004 (only copy I had) Chase’s Calendar of Events.
Why? Chase’s Calendar of Events is a very nice publication with lots of interesting write-ups about holidays and events big and small. You can find out what famous people were born on a specific date and upcoming festivals, contests, etc.
When I [...]
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I recently had a wonderful invitation to come and read Poster Girl at a Barnes & Noble bookfair hosted by Change 1 Child in Brooklyn. A book reading and signing at Barnes & Noble in New York, how cool does that sound?
I asked the Change 1 Child organizer, Simone, if they would [...]
U.S. Trade Printers of Four Color Books
I compiled the following list of U.S. four-color book printers for the current edition of Could You, Should You Self-Publish a Picture Book? in late 2006.
I recently verified that all printers are still in business printing and have the capabilities to print a children’s picture book (or other book [...]
Amazon Kindle Review — 2.0 Update
Having read through and summarized customer reviews on the original Amazon original, I was curious about what improvements the new Amazon 2.0 Kindle Reader would offer.
Here is a list of the official Kindle Reader 2.0 features from Amazon (along with unofficial commentary):
Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, [...]
I had seen another publisher comment on how easy it is to publish your books and ebooks as Amazon Kindle Ebooks. “Just save your document as HTML and upload it. That’s all there is to it,” they said. And at first glance when I went to www.digitaltextplatform.com, it did appear almost that simple.
I created my [...]
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